First up are some Blood Claws. The fan-made Space Wolves army lists in Epic are still being play-tested. This means that I might simply proxy these as Tactical Marines in a vanilla Codex Astartes list. With all of these models I went for brighter colours than might be expected - favouring red on the chainswords and bolt pistols, as well as on the backback exhausts. I wanted different units to 'pop' and be 'readable' from across the table.
These are the Grey Hunters, who are ostensibly the backbone of a Space Wolves force. They lack heavy weapons but that can be compensated for by having Razorbacks supplement their free Rhino transports. The younger Skyclaws and Bloodclaws I painted with red and pale hair and beards, with the Grey Hunters and Scouts having more black and brown hair, to suggest their relative age and experience.
The Scouts are quite small and fiddly, their official colours dominated by blue-grey, which made them a bit duller to paint. The trousers they wear are a khaki though, which adds some contrast. They're not technically meant to have sniper rifles unless you pay for them as an upgrade but I needed to add those so as not to use duplicate sculpts on each stand.
My finished Skyclaws are my favourite. Essentially the same sculpts as the Blood Claws, just with jump packs instead of backpacks, these break up the outline of the model and allow some bright blue exhaust colour to add contrast.
There was lots of fiddly detail all over these models, such as wolf pelts and wolf tail totems. I'm sure I probably missed something here or there, but there's point where you're squinting at tiny little toy soldiers a quarter inch high and you realise there's only so much effort you can put into them!
